by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 30, 2017 | Events, Professional Development, The ByLine
By Chris Clayton, DTN/The Progressive Farmer Would you like to learn more about covering the farm bill and environmental issues that impact your beat or region of the country? The Society of Environmental Journalism has a workshop Oct. 4 as part of the SEJ...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 28, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Anna McConnell, Meredith Agrimedia Interviewing sources is always a high-stakes situation. Whether you get the chattiest grower in the U.S. or the farmer who would rather you not come out and poke around his/her operation, your demeanor as a journalist and...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 28, 2017 | Awards, Photography, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Jim Patrico, AAEA Awards Co-Chair Writer of the Year Joe Link and I share some history. We both studied photojournalism under Angus McDougall at the University of Missouri, we both worked for Larry Harper at The Missouri Ruralist magazine, and we both worked...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 28, 2017 | The ByLine, What I Learned
By Holly Spangler, AAEA The Byline Editor Inexplicably, it’s September 2017, which means AAEA has marked an entire year with our new management company, ASG – and a year with outstanding staff members Samantha Kilgore and Courtney Jackson. We decided to take...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 18, 2017 | Awards, Design, The ByLine
By Matt Strelecki, Meredith Corporation I’ve directed projects seemingly far sexier than agriculture for a large part of my career but none compare to the job I’ve held for the last eight and half years. In the past, I’ve worked with Disney, Mattel, Sony...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 17, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Amy Roady, Membership Committee Chair When I look back at my time in South Africa during the 2017 IFAJ Congress many things stand out. The scene I keep going back to is Kurt Lawton, editor of Corn and Soybean Digest, and I both standing in the middle of corn...
